2020 · horror · thriller · supernatural
Children of the Corn
Directed by Kurt Wimmer1h 33m2020
A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan is the town's only hope of survival.
Our read: Children of the Corn (2020) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · thriller · supernatural entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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